Watch: Dubai Hotel Fire Explosion – Streaming And Recorded Video
A horrific inferno is blazing in a Dubai skyscraper hotel as the city celebrates New Year’s Eve.
The 63-story Address Hotel in Dubai is engulfed in flames after a fire broke out at about 9:30 PM local time.
At least 14 people injured from #Dubai hotel fire, government reports: https://t.co/fSeQpSx2na pic.twitter.com/2fvLgnsA1L
— CNN (@CNN) December 31, 2015
Here is a live video feed via Sky News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60wDzZt8yg
Here is CNN’s coverage of the fire and explosion when it happened:
Multiple explosions rock #Dubai‘s luxury hotel live on air https://t.co/oPIYkLWYDW https://t.co/wLBEviJOF2
— CNN (@CNN) December 31, 2015
WATCH: Large explosion at #Dubai hotel during a live interview with American expatriate https://t.co/HOW2KDfqoc https://t.co/pV9FZoeyOP
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) December 31, 2015
And from another angle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obRM9bv7jA8
The New York Post reports about 14 people have ben injured, but it seems likely that number will increase substantially.Â
“It will not affect the celebration,†said Maj. Gen. Rashed al-Matrushi, general director of the Dubai Civil Defense.
The government said on its Twitter feed that civil defense teams and staff were evacuating the hotel, which oppened [sic] in 2008 and has 196 rooms starting at about $500 a night and 626 apartments serviced by the hotel staff.
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